Revealed: What The Iranians Forced US Sailors To Do While Being Held Captive – It’s Chilling

New details emerging about the captivity of 10 American sailors seized by Iran on Tuesday reveal that the captives were ordered to act their parts in Iran’s propaganda. What’s still murky is the extent to which American officials were also involved in Iran’s choreography of the incident and the apology offered to Iran by one of the American captives.

CNN, basing its report on an official with access to the sailors’ debriefing, is reporting that Iranian guards told the captives to “act happy” while being detained.

The American commander who was recorded apologizing to Iran has indicated in the debriefing he felt pressure to talk about the captives’ treatment, CNN reported. He was filmed saying, “It was a mistake that was our fault and we apologize for our mistake.”

American officials had spoken with the commander before that statement was made, Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla., told The Daily Caller said Thursday.

“We do know that the State Department did talk to those guys before he made that comment, so it was very kind of, honestly, suspicious why he would just come out and make that kind of a statement,” Rooney said.

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“It almost seems like it was cooked in the books for part of the release to make it look better that he would apologize for drifting into the water and then they would be released.”

Rooney, a veteran who served as an attorney in the Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps, said the whole incident looks suspicious.

“The naval officer’s apology goes sort of counter to everything we were taught,” he said. “One of the first things you learn when you get into the military is you have to memorize the code of conduct and a lot of what is spelled out there is you never issue any kind of apology or words of comfort to the enemy.”

Britain’s Daily Mail has reported that Iranian officials have bragged that The U.S. was “forced” to make a groveling apology in order to have the sailors released. American officials have insisted no formal American apology was given. They have portrayed the release of the sailors as a triumph of diplomacy and open communication

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Meanwhile, Iranian Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami, deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, was openly gloating, according to a report in the Times of Israel.

“The Marines were crying when they were being captured, but they later felt better after the IRGC forces treated them with kindness,” he said.

“The Americans humbly admitted our might and power, and we freed the Marines after being assured that they had entered the Iranian waters unintentionally and we even returned their weapons,” Salami also said.

On Wednesday, Gen. Ali Fadavi, the IRGC’s naval commander, said his forces had their missiles locked on the USS Truman, which he said showed “unprofessional behavior” during the incident.

“The US and France’s aircraft carriers were within our range and if they had continued their unprofessional moves, they would have been afflicted with such a catastrophe that they had never experienced all throughout the history,” he said. “They could have been shot, and if they were, they would have been destroyed.”